1. The Home Depot to Present at The Merrill Lynch 30th Annual Retailing Leaders Conference
ATLANTA, March 15, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- The Home Depot(R), the world's largest home
improvement retailer, announced that Frank Blake, chairman & CEO, will present at the Merrill Lynch 30th Annual Retailing
Leaders Conference on Thursday, March 22, 2007 in New York, NY. The presentation will begin at 12:45 p.m. ET.
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The presentation will be webcast live over the Internet at homedepot.com. On the home page, select "Investor Relations" and a
link will be displayed under "Executive Presentations." The webcast will be archived and available at the same location.
The Home Depot(R) is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,164 retail stores in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. Through its HD Supply(SM)
businesses, The Home Depot is also one of the largest diversified wholesale distributors in the United States, with nearly 1,000
locations in the United States and Canada offering products and services for building, improving and maintaining homes,
businesses and municipal infrastructures. In fiscal 2006, The Home Depot had sales of $90.8 billion and earnings of $5.8
billion. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones
industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. HDG
SOURCE The Home Depot
Financial Community, Diane Dayhoff, Sr. Vice President of Investor Relations,
+1-770-384-2666, or diane_dayhoff@homedepot.com, or Media, Jerry Shields, Sr. Public
Relations Manager, +1-770-384-2741, or jerry_shields@homedepot.com, both of The Home
Depot
http://www.homedepot.com/
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